My money goes to my agent, then to my accountant and from him to the tax man.

I used to believe that anything was better than nothing. Now I know that sometimes nothing is better.

Nobody really needs a mink coat... Except the mink.

I look forward to growing old and wise and audacious.

Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare. The whole essence of learning lines is to forget them so you can make them sound like you thought of them that instant.

It's appalling that there have to be movements organized to give human beings the right to be human beings in the eyes of other human beings.

I can't actually see myself putting make-up on my face at the age of sixty, but I can see myself going on a camel train to Samarkand.

I have never believed you make your case stronger by bad-mouthing your opposition.

Men can be a great deal of work for very little reward.

If we go back to the heyday of that era I think we will see replicated again the extraordinary human damage that we as a nation have suffered from.

The good writer and the good actor are always searching for what is essential. It is a never-ending task because what is essential is always elusive and, therefore, fascinating.

If you think you’re worthless, you’re not - but your limiting self-beliefs are. Change them.

Focus on the Destination not on the journey

Having a dream isn't stupid. ... It's not having a dream that's stupid.

You can never make a woman happy, it's impossible. I've never met a happy woman in my life. They're always complaining about something.

I think kids have got to learn how to work with what's happening, work with social, work with everything. To complain about how things aren't the way they used to be.

Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.

There is a sort of an unwritten code in Washington, among the underworld and the hustlers and these other guys that I am their friend.

Art doesn't reflect what we see; it makes us see.

When words become a poem, it makes sense to me, but I don't know how to explain to someone why the words are the way they are. It's just the logic of the poem to me.